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From heavyweight leaders to celebrities, stakes are high in the fourth phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections that will be held on Saturday. In Phase-IV, 44 constituencies from the districts of Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, Howrah, Hooghly and South 24 Parganas are going to polls. A total of 1,15,81,022 electorates will decide the fate of 373 candidates in this phase. Among the most high-profile contests, one is the Tollygunge constituency, where BJP has fielded Union Minister Babul Supriyo against sitting TMC MLA Aroop Biswas. Biswas, also a minister in the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal cabinet has been representing the Tollygunge Assembly constituency for the last three terms. Worth mentioning, Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan campaigned for TMC candidate Aroop Biswas. CPI(M) has fielded Debdut Ghosh from the seat.
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Kolkata: Ending months worth of speculation, five of the miffed former leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajib Banerjee, Rathin Chakraborty, Baishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, and Partha Sarathi Chatterjee along with Bengali actor Rudranil Ghosh, met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence on Saturday and defected to the BJP in national capital Delhi.
The individuals were earlier slated to defect to the saffron camp during the Home Minister s rally in West Bengal.
After a 45-minute-long closed-door meeting with Shah, where the Union Home Minister detailed their new responsibilities for the party, the leaders defected to the BJP.
Trinamool expels Bally MLA
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Baishali Dalmiya had voiced support for Rajib Bannerjee and Laxmi Ratan Shukla, who quit the party
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TMC MLA Baishali Dalmiya.
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Baishali Dalmiya had voiced support for Rajib Bannerjee and Laxmi Ratan Shukla, who quit the party
Cracking the whip against dissenting party leaders, the Trinamool Congress on Friday expelled Baishali Dalmiya, MLA from the Bally Assembly constituency in Howrah district and daughter of well-known cricket administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya.
Reacting to the development, Ms. Dalmiya said the party will have to specify what anti-party activities she has been accused of. The MLA said she was spared the task of tendering her resignation and would expose the TMC’s corruption.